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Originally Posted by whell
Now, think about how this 'hospitality" might have been 150 years ago, and how it might have influenced the mindset of Southerners when thinking about Northerners and the Union Army. Then try to tell me that the "only thing on their minds was preserving the institution of slavery", when most of them likely didn't own slaves.
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Like people everywhere, these southern folk that made up the rank and file followed leaders. The leaders said, 'They're a comin' we gotta fight 'em,' so they lined up. This is instinctive.
In the North, the leaders said, 'They're rebels, we gotta go get 'em,' and folks lined up on that side. This also is instinctive.
This triggering was all set up by 10 years of increasing outrage in the North over bloody Kansas and the like, and the horrid insults from the sadistic slaverunners. And likewise in the South, increasing outrage over John Brown, and the horrid insults of the crazy abolitionists.
And the leaders on both sides were playing the usual leader economic and power and ego games, while also being whipped themselves by the same emotions that whipped the masses.
But without slavery, no one would have gotten whipped up enough to get all hateful like they did, and have a big war.